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" ... unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendour of the day; it has extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscles; it... "
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Page 398
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 850 pages
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 11

1846 - 512 pages
...accelerated motion ; it has anmhilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, and all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it...the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the earth in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 10-11

1837 - 538 pages
...latter was attainable. Ask the follower of Bacon, what the- new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and...noxious recesses of the earth, "to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against the wind. These...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 65

1837 - 608 pages
...annihilated distance; 'it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, all friendly offices, 'all dispatch of business; it has enabled man to descend to the...into ' the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse (he land on cars • which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which • sail against...
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The Sportsman

508 pages
...accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, and all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it...the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the earth in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships winch ran ten knots an hour...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., Volume 15

John William Carleton - 1846 - 508 pages
...accelerated motion ; it has anmhilated distance ; it has facilitated intercourse, correspondence, and all friendly offices, all despatch of business ; it...the noxious recesses of the earth ; to traverse the earth in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the splendor of the day ; it has extended the range of the human...depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate x securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...day; it hjas extended the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle; it has accelerated motion; it has annihilated distance;...noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against the wind. These...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...; it has extended the range of the human vision ; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle; ises to cultivate )and on cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which sail against the wind....
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Critical and Historical Essays: Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple. Gladstone on ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and...along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits....
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...day; It h»8 tfxtendM the range of the human vision; it has multiplied the power of the human muscle ; it has accelerated motion ; it has annihilated distance;...has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, tb s6ar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the...
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